The academy said one of the discoveries being recognised fulfils 'a 50-year-old dream of predicting protein structures from their amino acid sequences'.
Scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the construction of proteins.
The prize, widely regarded as among the most prestigious in the scientific world, is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns . The third award to be handed out every year, the chemistry prize follows those for medicine and physics, announced earlier this week.
First handed out in 1901, 15 years after Nobel's death, it is awarded for achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace. Recipients in each category share the prize sum that has been adjusted over the years.The winners for medicine are selected by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute medical university and receive a prize sum of $1.6 million.
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